On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Aryeh Gregor < simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com <simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Chengbin Zheng<chengbinzh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On a side note, if parsing the XML gets you the static HTML version of > > Wikipedia, why can't Wikimedia just parse it for us and save a lot of our > > time (parsing and learning), and use that as the static HTML dump > version? > > I'd assume it was a performance issue to parse all the pages for all > the dumps so often. It might have just used too much CPU to be worth > it at the time. Parsing some individual pages can take 20 seconds or > more, and there are millions of them (although most much faster to > parse than that). I'm sure it could be reinstituted with some effort, > though. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > Wouldn't parsing it be faster than actually creating that many HTMLs? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
